Looks like a news letter from comal county Texas Republican HQ. Most likely to fear monger their base
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Why is this image stamped by a republican party?
A party is not a unity, it is an amalagamation of people aligned under a set of common goals
The less common goals there area the bigger the tent and the higher probability of those common goals passing, but also a higher probability of group discors as more and more diverse ideas find polarizing topics
It is party leadership, and thus the people already within the tent, to carefully determine which goals to propose, because too few or narrow goals and the niche is too small to find majority support, but if the goals are too many or top broad then the group can become too big and rip itself apart like an overblown balloon
So, its a fine balance of making goals wide enough to capture enough to get them acheived, but not so much that it stalls or pops
Its up to the individual to look at a party’s goals and their own goals and determine if they can tolerate being under that tent or not .
I think under the current election system, all individual voters are having to tolerate so much to receive so little - i dont know if there is any person who truly feels seen and represented by their state and federal elections - i hope at least a few are in city and county elections
could be better, i think a lot about liquid democracy and consent based voting
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 2 days ago
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They’re trying to fear monger. They have their constituents trained to short circuit and hate anything they label as communist/socialist. Its like that Fox News screenshot with all the barely centrist very normal stuff that “lEfTiStS” want to do.